WeChat - an exhibition by Verena Issel

Especially for Oechsner Galerie, Verena Issel develops a new room installation, a closed system in which individual paintings, made in China, are linked to each other by wall painting, plastic tubes and Chat symbols.

The total control of WeChat is caricatured in its positive friendliness, the seemingly naïve use of and through the app is thrown back into the non digital world of things by enlarging small but significant parts of the net of communication and control. The painted "tubes" are presented as a channel, originating from Shanghais  subway (also "tube" - in which the citizens of Shanghai averagely sit two hours per day and are of course being filmed while doing so...).

WeChat (Chinese: 微信; literally: "micro-message") is a Chinese multi-purpose social media mobile application software . By 2017 it was one of the largest standalone mobile apps with over 980 million monthly active users.
WeChat provides text messaging, hold-to-talk voice messaging, broadcast (one-to-many) messaging, video conferencing, video games, sharing of photographs and videos, and location sharing.

The artist is challenging the boarders of two- and threedimensional images and spaces and manages to eliminate boarders between single objects.

Exhibition: February 24, 2018 to April 14, 2018

Venue: Oechsner Galerie, Gustav-Adolf-Str. 33 (Ecke Leopoldstraße) · 90439 Nürnberg

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